Medieval Economic Thought

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• Medieval Economic Thought *
• Title Page *
• Contents *
• Preface ix
• Abbreviations xi
• Introduction: Problems, Evidence, and Background 1
• 1 - Private Property Versus Communal Rights: the Conflict of Two Laws 17
• 2 - Wealth, Beggary, and Sufficiency 42
• 3 - What is Money? 69
• 4 - Sovereign Concerns: Weights, Measures, and Coinage 89
• 5 - The Mercantile System 110
• 6 - The Just Price and the Just Wage 132
• 7 - The Nature of Usury: the Usurer as Winner 159
• 8 - The Theory of Interest: the Usurer as Loser 181
• Conclusion 206
• Appendix - Notes on the Main Writers and Anonymous Works Mentioned in the Text 210

• Medieval Economic Thought *
• Title Page *
• Contents *
• Preface ix
• Abbreviations xi
• Introduction: Problems, Evidence, and Background 1
• 1 - Private Property Versus Communal Rights: the Conflict of Two Laws 17
• 2 - Wealth, Beggary, and Sufficiency 42
• 3 - What is Money? 69
• 4 - Sovereign Concerns: Weights, Measures, and Coinage 89
• 5 - The Mercantile System 110
• 6 - The Just Price and the Just Wage 132
• 7 - The Nature of Usury: the Usurer as Winner 159
• 8 - The Theory of Interest: the Usurer as Loser 181
• Conclusion 206
• Appendix - Notes on the Main Writers and Anonymous Works Mentioned in the Text 210
• Glossary of Terms 224
• Select Bibliography 227
• Index 243